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Topic Started: Mar 2 2010, 10:00 PM (456 Views)
Mason
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While people were dancing in the streets and buying Owebama merchandise, it would've been nice if the fellow had been vetted in some way,l in any way.

POW!


March 2, 2010, 6:35 pm
Fuel Taxes Must Rise, Harvard Researchers Say
By SINDYA N. BHANOO

To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon.

To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.

The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.

In their study, the researchers devised several combinations of steps that United States policymakers might take in trying to address the heat-trapping emissions by the nation’s transportation sector, which consume 70 percent of the oil used in the United States.

Most of their models assumed an economy-wide carbon dioxide tax starting at $30 a ton in 2010 and escalating to $60 a ton in 2030. In some cases researchers also factored in tax credits for electric and hybrid vehicles, taxes on fuel or both.

In the modeling, it turned out that issuing tax credits could backfire, while taxes on fuel proved beneficial.

“Tax credits don’t address how much people use their cars,” said Ross Morrow, one of the report’s authors. “In reverse, they can make people drive more.”

Dr. Morrow, formerly a fellow at the Belfer Center, is a professor of mechanical engineering and economics at Iowa State University

Researchers said that vehicle miles traveled will increase by more than 30 percent between 2010 and 2030 unless policymakers increase fuel taxes.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/fuel-taxes-must-rise-harvard-researchers-say/

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It's hard to vet an undocumented person...
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The torches and pitchforks would be out before gas hits $7 a gallon.
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The end.
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Why don't we just place a R.I.P wreath over the US Economy? I understand the progressives have long dreamed of a $7 /gallon price on fuel. It would raise billions, but unfortunately it would also raise food prices through the roof and destroy industry.

Maybe Michelle will be out there promoting urban gardens.

I have nothing but contempt for their ignorance about the reality of our food distribution system.
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There's no reason to get upset, they wouldn't do that to us, they have a special plan to unveil tax credits for bikes (non-motorized), I'm sure.

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This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
I'll never look into your eyes...again
Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need...of some...stranger's hand
In a...desperate land


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